 Blackadder Attempts To Build An Imperial Warmonger Titan |
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| BIG |
 Mar 2 2018, 09:17 AM
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Oh I am not pushing one way or the other. I am impressed that you are bothering to consider it at all.
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| Blackadder |
Mar 4 2018, 11:02 AM
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QUOTE(BIG @ Mar 2 2018, 09:17 AM)  Oh I am not pushing one way or the other. I am impressed that you are bothering to consider it at all. My scratch Titans have been posable as a matter of course. While I originally intended to make this Titan a fixed stance; as I build I find it may be feasible to make it articulated after all and in life you only go around once so why not grab a bit of gusto. ;-) The Bottom of the foot pads: The Movie Helsreach shows the bottom of the foot pads as a rather bland tread pattern. https://i.imgur.com/NEfzlzl.jpg  So be it. I like it for it's simplicity. https://i.imgur.com/FYk80zj.jpg  -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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| Blackadder |
Mar 7 2018, 10:33 AM
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I've been requested to provide Scale for the Emperor Titan. Unfortunately the legs are not attached to the pelvis, in point of fact the upper leg segment has yet to be designed. But one lower leg is avail so for reference we can compare it to a standard Space Marine Trooper and to a Warlord Titan that I just happen to have.....
https://i.imgur.com/V4kBmmr.jpg[  One of these day I'm going to have to break out my green screen. This next shot is from ground level https://i.imgur.com/BvHyUA4.jpg  https://i.imgur.com/V4kBmmr.jpg TTFN -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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| Blackadder |
Mar 10 2018, 07:01 AM
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Legs Akimbo:
It's time to put my theories to the test. Yesterday began designing what I hope will be a movable leg system that will use friction locks to maintain the pose. The PVC pipe couplings have "O" ring compression gaskets that will lock the upper thigh in place yet allow me to change the position in seconds. https://i.imgur.com/xZLeTkM.jpg  The Lower Thigh to knee joint will be trickier and require a screw driver compression joint the same as on my Warlord. https://i.imgur.com/3yoV86m.jpg  The biggest problem and one I just solved today in a fit of serendipity is how to make the legs sprawl out into the classic Titan pose. https://i.imgur.com/iQn5Ci2.jpg  That will require a homemade gimbal assembly that I may have worked out in theory. It remains to be seen if the material is up to it. Looking at these images I can just see my loyal readers cringing........... I'm putting a lot of hope on flimsy styrene components.  -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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| Blackadder |
Mar 12 2018, 06:20 AM
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Curing a rainy day:
It's a far cry from this..... https://i.imgur.com/3yoV86m.jpg to this..... https://i.imgur.com/VUSn5xa.jpg  and even further to this. https://i.imgur.com/lij9Cbi.jpg  https://i.imgur.com/bpd8MlQ.jpg  It is my hope to have fully articulated legs on this beastie although I will not go to the effort I went to with my Warlord giving the legs a "Toe in" and "Toe Out" capability. That was much too much and although workable I have never employed that feature when posing my Warlord. https://i.imgur.com/TxcnBfk.jpg  Finally I can get a glimpse of what I have been working toward for these past few weeks; with the hip connect scaled to size, and the upper leg finally attached at the knee. I can now make some inroads towards an actual knee structure. I am now thinking of cutting the knee joint into the upper tier of the greave. which I believe will look much better. Onward and Upward as they say............... -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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| Blackadder |
Mar 13 2018, 05:17 AM
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-------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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Mar 14 2018, 04:49 AM
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Ha! Well I wanted to set up the model to see if the sizes were in scale but the upper torso was too heavy to suspend over the lower torso and legs. I instead Photo shopped a quick composite to present here. First the image of the torso and the legs and then the green screen composite. The legs right now are like a house of cards so mounting the body on them is not possible.
https://i.imgur.com/y09kMSG.jpg  https://i.imgur.com/pRzSZon.jpg  As I said, the model thus far stands just over a meter tall (39.36 inches); a lot bigger than I had originally planned. -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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Mar 16 2018, 10:12 AM
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Reinforce and Detail Legs:
Today I began to strengthen the legs with the Armour and detailed the corner spires... https://i.imgur.com/Bl6BkMI.jpg  and ran out of plastic. Ha! https://i.imgur.com/3cOzYYu.jpg  I'll have to make a run tomorrow. -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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| Caliginous |
Mar 16 2018, 10:35 PM
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 Blistering Barnacle  Group: Support Veteran Posts: 1,521 Joined: 22-June 08 Member No.: 5,646 |
Just phenomenal.
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| Blackadder |
Mar 21 2018, 03:09 AM
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Stallmate
My local hobby supplier has let me down and I cannot get the large amount of strip styrene of a particular size I require. Normally I cut my own but even that did not produce enough. https://i.imgur.com/bjzZa47.jpg  But every setback has a silver lining as it forced me to work on detail I was putting off 'til later. Which ultimately was most gratifying. It also relieved me of the tedious aspect of making eight of these constructs plus I am catching up on current Dinosaur theory. -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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Mar 25 2018, 05:27 AM
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Looking More Like A Wedding Cake
Everyday https://i.imgur.com/5FR5BVh.jpg  A pains taking week and a lot of work but does it really reflect it; not so much. The spires, Minarets, whatever mimic the 3D work by measurement but the spire points seem a bit squat..... https://i.imgur.com/z4mddtV.jpg  But in this image they look okay. Go figure. Anyway I'll try sanding them down some more. After all I have almost a millimeter to play with. -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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Mar 27 2018, 11:42 PM
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Twenty One To Go:
The basic shape of the greave portals https://i.imgur.com/Nepf1Ip.jpg  https://i.imgur.com/nsORmOc.jpg  https://i.imgur.com/elNjknV.jpg  https://i.imgur.com/aPf0N08.jpg  -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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| Master Chris |
Apr 5 2018, 09:04 AM
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You're amazing.
Can't even imagine spending the amount of time and effort you've already committed to this to any project of my own. You have the focus and dedication of a monk, sir. -------------------- Everything that existed before I was born is irrelevant, everything that exists after I die is lucky.
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Apr 15 2018, 09:32 PM
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Sorry to have been so long in responding:
The tedium of making dozens of these structures; revising, chopping and rebuilding better representatives of them seemed like not the most interesting aspect of this build. https://i.imgur.com/OYc5SIe.jpg  I finally have enough, eighteen, for the first tier of the greaves and, with slight modifications, I have devised of a better way to produce the second tier, eight in all, that is less labor intensive. Couple that with an abscessed tooth, a root canal, and a mild case of the flu made me less than amenable to communicating my meager progress with my peers. The castle portion of this construct will necessitate a lot of repetitive work and no I am not going to "cast" or 3D print any portion of the requisite components. In my warped OCD way I consider that cheating Of course I am hypocritically not above using bitz.  -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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Apr 20 2018, 07:05 AM
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Blackadder is Back In the Groove
To be a bit self serving I'm feeling much better and the past few day have been most productive. The gabled naves in the first level greaves give the appearance of homogeneity even though they aren't exactly the same. https://i.imgur.com/BYJ02mZ.jpg  The first attempt at a stain glass insert for the naves for lack of a better name. https://i.imgur.com/8d8LHKb.jpg  A side by side comparison I stumbled across on my imgur preview index. Even though my Emperor will be taller the proportions are pretty close. Whew! https://i.imgur.com/wdDpheK.jpg  Note to self, "I have to shorten the second and third tier. And hip region needs to be beefier." -------------------- "It is easier to deceive people than it is to convince them that they have been deceived."
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| BIG |
Apr 20 2018, 08:59 AM
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Member Group: Veteran Members Posts: 765 Joined: 6-March 13 Member No.: 14,152 |
Looking really good. Quite a bit of progress has been achieved. How is the tooth?
Could you thicken the hip areas simply with detailing? Coiled wires, insignias etc. etc. rather than any actual structural work? -------------------- Check out my Crazy Army plan here
Check out the Fluff for my Crazy Army plan here 2000 Point Armies [40k] Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment, 34/87th Tullarium Armour; Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Grimskragas Razorfangs, Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath; Hive Fleet Acidica; XII Ab=mbush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; [Warhammer] The Obsidian Knightly Order; The Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Dragonriders of Caledor; Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; The Throng of Kark Veng; |
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